Whor or what constitues
"Washington Post Editors?" And what are the "reliable" English sources in the U.S. that rteport on Iran. Certainly not the "Washington Post Editors." A news story from the Post's reporter in Teheran fairly characterizes the statements of the Iranian government as "warning," but the obvious insert from those "editors" is "threatens." What makes a statement to the effect that the "U.S. has the capacity to cause harm and pain," and that others can also cause it "harm and pain "a threat?" Why isn't Mr. Cheney or Mr. bolton's statements to AIPAC "threats?" Reliable indeed.

America has a Neoconservative foreign policy. You have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to know it. Do a web search under "Clean Break" and the Bush foreign policy will pop right up for you. It was orignially designed for the Netanyahu government by American Neoconservatives. Israel didn't have the military muscle for such a project, so when Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and company came into the Bush Administration it became American foreign policy. You have in that document the "Axis of Evil" listed, the "Democracy" ploy, sidelining Arafat, and various other idiotic policies by the Bush Administration listed. I got the website from the Washington Post. I can't remember his name, but it was written by an Washinton Post Editor. This was way before the Iraq War.
While their is a small native anti-UN movement in the U.S., The Neoconservative's version reflects the Israeli point of view. The UN has passed a number of unenforceable Resolutions against Israel which has annoyed them. In deed, this hardnose approach to Bush's foreign policy imitates Israel's approach to the Arabs. This is not the normal way Americans conduct foreign policy.

There's other connections as well. Things like "Ahmadinejad has even identified a date when he believes that the Imam will reappear within the next two years" are no different than Christian (mostly American) fundamentalists - backed by our NeoCons - who fully back Israel in the belief that the reconstituted Jewish state will bring about the "end of days."

The point is, when you mix radical religious beliefs with foreign/international politics, it is ALWAYS going to be a recipe for disaster.

Marg Bar Jomhoori-eh Eslami Iran
DEATH to Islamic Republic in Iran!

why is it that in the reporting of the Iranian crisis no mention is made by American commentators including of course the Post reporters of the fact that the US is regarded by the Iranian regime as the principal threat to its longevity and by extension to the security of Iran. Offering Iran EU guarantees of security and paltry concessions is no way to persuade the Iranian regime to pursue the path it is pursuing either in the nuclear field or in the encouragement of the Hezbollah or other organisations labelled terrorist.
The North Korean question reached its present stage because the neo-conservatives decided to scuttle the Clinton plan. It is open to question whether the North Koreans would have proceeded to the development of nuclear weapons if the Clinton plan had been followed through. Today I fear that if the Americans do not enter into the negotiations themselves and offer carrots other than spare parts for civilian aircraft this crisis will continue. The reformists in Iran need something more before they can curb Ahmadinejad's irresponsible albeti meaningless rhetoric.
Why does'nt the Post do a investigative story on the Iranian assets frozen by the US, the extent to which American policy towards Iran is determined by Israeli perceptions of how their interests would best be served by an American hardline towards Iran and a hardnosed assessment of exactly how much of Iranian rhetoric really translates into actions that harm American interests

The United States will naturally make its decisions vis a vis Iran based on its national interests, and the mullahs running the government in Iran will formulate their policies to support their own longevity & staying power. The losers will again be the long-suffering & innocent people of Iran. Remember 1956, and the CIA coup against the democratically elected Prime Minister Mosaddegh? It's dejavu again.
Nobody cares about the people of Iran, neither the government in Iran, nor the US administration, and that's the way it is :-(

again, more Bravo Sierra from the blind leftists who know nothing about the politics and can't see the differences between the US democratic structure and Iranian theocratic system

It is awful how blind, dumb and poor these global leftists have become!

But seriously, Iranian people don't care what you and your ilk say. And all they care about is to be free and they don't care who would FREE them.

Be advised that Mr. Bush is well liked among Iranians inside of Iran

MANIC SOUNDS OF RELIGIO-POLITICAL ZEALOTRY

1.He Prays to, & understands the whispered intentions of a Devine Higher Power in whom he has absolute faith.

2.He's upset when bystanders question his claim to goodness or worse, when they doubt the plain evil-NESS of his enemies.

3.He sees himself as strong hand-maiden in a battle that must be won for Country and in the name of The Devine.

4.Though thrust into a nuanced complexity of world leadership, he speaks with the clear illogic of the truly un-sophiscated.

5. He's the token cheerleader of a small tribe of religious zealots who wield enormous power in the name of a general public that has no control over what is being done in their name.

6. He wraps messianism in cloaks of pseudo patriotism and sees treason in every dissenting whisper.

7. He thumps his nationalist faith is the pain or attrition that comes from military might even though own his military service to his country is proven more in mystery than in actual substance.

IS THIS
1. U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
OR
2. IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD?

I agree with the comments below.

The US is threatening to attack Iranians with bombers and missiles.

Iran is, in response, threatening to refuse to sell its oil.

Somehow in the Washington Post, this transforms into a crazed Iranian threat against oh-so-reasonable America.
The spirit of Judy Miller lives on...

Oops guess I meant I agree with the comments above.

Iran and Iraq are both failed states and the region needs a new center of democratic gravity, a pivot of stability, and a new foundation to expand the waves of stability in the region.

Both Kisinger and Brzezinski and their students (Bremer and Khalilzad) have missed to identify the Kurds as that center of gravity and stability against the war of terror and forces of chaos in the region. It is time for emergence of
a strong Kurdish general to clean the mess in the region. Perhaps he is the Medi (Medes) that the shiites are waiting to emerge in 2 years time.

Are you referring to the article I wrote, OD?

In other words, I'm wondering if you read my interview with Hossein Bastani and came away with the notion that the Post was presenting "a crazed Iranian threat against oh-so-reasonable America?"

Did you read the same article I wrote?

interesting article Mr. Morley. Iran Focus is the media arm of MKO(aka:PMKI,NCR,NCRI,etc.)organization who is advocating violent regime change in iran and are also responsible for the assasination of U.S military advisors in iran in the 70's.(that is why they are on the terrorist list of the u.s gov.). Aimr Taheri is also suggesting a violent regime change in iran thanks to his membership at an organization called "Benador Associates" a public relations firm that promotes neo-conservative writers/speakers etc. (please check their website and their member list, you'll be surprised).Iran Press Service is another anti-iranian gov. news site, so don't be surprised if they are not showing skepticism about senarios of "regime change". unfortunatley there are no one reliable news source about iran whether from inside or outside of iran .you just have to listen/hear/read several sources and come to your own conclusion.

Oh no, Morley. I rather like your interview.
I wouldn't be so rude as to equate you with Judy Miller.

I'm referring to the drumbeat of irresponsible headlines like yesterday's "Iran Threatens U.S. With 'Harm and Pain'".

Naturally this will be seized on as evidence of Iran's intent to destroy America, when they're really just saying 'leave us alone'.

By the way, has anyone noticed how, unlike the Judy Miller & Co saga, where we were regaled with fantastic details of Iraq's fantasy WMD program, the Iran frame-up is proceeding with hardly anybody mentioning any facts at all about their actual weapons?

Not even made-up facts like last time around.

Seems odd, since unlike Iraq, Iran almost certainly does have a primitive nuclear weapons program.

PS I see now why you might think I was referring to you. I should have been clearer.

Another example of news story editorialising in an AP story printed in yesterday's WaPo:

"Russia, however, warned against dropping the diplomatic approach with Iran and - in a sign of its reluctance to condemn its ally, Tehran - said even the two-week deadline proposed by Britain was too short."

Even?

Clearly the writer is suggesting that the Russians are being unreasonable by rejecting EVEN this deadline.

But what's unreasonable about that when the CIA is saying an Iranian bomb is ten years away?

Why must we be hustled into precipitate action by Britain and the US - again?

What's the big rush to get everything wrong again?

Is Russia "reluctant to condemn its ally"? How shabbily partisan. No chance, of course, that they might simply remember how we were all pushed breathlessly into an idiotic war by a false sense of urgency last time.

And hey, guess what. Israel's had hundreds of nukes for ages, and the WaPo's barely raised a squeak about it.

And every time they get a UN resolution against them for their illegal occupations, killings and invasions, the US vetoes it. Yet strangely you never see the WaPo pointing out that these vetoes are "a sign of American reluctantance to condemn its ally."

Washington Post is the mouthpiece of dictators and tyrannts.

Who cares what WashPost says?

I ADMIRE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION ESPECIALLY THAT MEMORABLE PORTION WHICH SAYS "WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT...," THAT:

i) Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-
Prolifiration Treaty, NPT, under which
ALL members (not just US-pal members)
are guaranteed un-ambiguous legal right
to conduct uranium-enrichment research.

ii)The U.S. welcomed & in fact actively
encouraged the building of Iran's nuke
reactor when Teheran was the political
parsimony of U.S. lacky Shah Pahlevi
whose kleptomanic autocracy forced the
Iranians masses to embrace the 77-virgin
dreamscapes the Khomeinists painted.

iii)The U.S. knew of and apparantly OK-ed
Iran's accellerating nuke project in
the 1980s when it needed Iran to fight
U.S. proxy war against Saddam Hussein.

iv) Israel, India & Pakistan are all rogue
nuclear nations who refused to sign the
NTP for which U.S. Dick Cheney now
threatens to shoot Iran in the face.

AND HOW DOES THE U.S. RESPOND TO INDIA
PAKISTAN, ISRAEL, AND NORTH KOREA?:

Every year Isreal gets $6Billion U.S.
tax-payers money in guaranteed economic
& military assistance. President Bush
rewards Pakistan with a high profile
state visit and, India? Oh yes, Bush
signs a nuclear agreement with India
to "assist India's nuclear capability"
by additional transfer to India of U.S
nuclear techonological know-how..."

Huh?

Welcome to U.S. Whimsical Diplomacy 101

v) North Korea kicks out the NTP (that is
the U.S) and blatantly resumes uranium
enrichment, & what did George Bush do?
Yes, you guessed it...he clenched his
jaw, balled his toes and "militantly"
refused to speak to Dear Leader Kim.

Ah, yes, recently, the Bush Administration has been trying to convince a skeptical world that it has just found (you won't believe this!) a lap-top computer which it claimed that "Iranian agents failed to safeguard."

Pheeeew! Those tough Iranina agents have got to be clumsy.

The Bush Administration wants the world to believe that Iran was smart enough to hide their decades-long dealing with Pakistani Nuke rogue scientist A.Q. Khan (without tipping off the Mossad or the CIA) but was at the same time stupid enough to forget a lap-top computer that contained their nuke prototype design in a Teheran neighborhood McDonald's.

It is not so strange that U.S. and Iran's neo-cons have a lot in common.

On the one hand is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a backwoods peasant with the obnoxious dream of wiping Israel off the map.

On the other is the Bush crowd which seems incapable of understanding that it has zero credibility around the world, & that its current claim of an Iranina "secret lap-top" only serves to remind the world of Gen. Collins Powell, whose otherwide impeccable reputation was tarnished when the same Bush neo-cons tricked him into presenting that aspirin bottle to the U.N. General Assembly as "evidence of Iraq's biological and radiological weapon."

Mr. Onyema, you are truly brilliant and Nigeria should be honored to have a person like you.

Great commentary James...too much double standard.

Ha ha, Aspirin bottle as Iraq W.M.D. proof

Now, lap-top as Iran's Nuke Proof

I'm sick of hearing the word of democracy,human right in these days because they are getting used by one the most ingonance,stupid and jews pupet president ,G.W. Bush. US invading independent countries to achieve global dominance.
It is an invariable ambition of the U.S. to invade and dominate and establish a global order of its domination, The U.S. talk about peace and human rights is nothing but a slogan for invading and dominating other countries and a subterfuge to cover up its criminal nature.The US Gov. control all the major news media of America to cover up his dirty hands and unfortunately ordinary American cann't see this.
The same things happening by another dumb presint,Ahmadinejad, in Iran.He use Islam for arresting and beating ordeniry Iranian for their views and thoughts.
All of these BS started by mentaly ill Bush and will take us to a point of no return.

For your informtion: The Rooz Web site is blocked in Iran. As is www.warincontext.com, salon.com, Tom Tomorrow's blog, Washington Monthly, and a bunch of other sites. The moron deciding what sites to block is an idiot.